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inflammation & px
pharm inflammation & px
Question | Answer |
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Salicylate | Aspirin |
salicylate tx | cooling iv fluids, gastric lavage, activate charcoal, sodium bicarb |
AE of salicylate | Abnormal bleeding, aspirin toxicity, salicylism, reye syndrome |
toxicity s/sx aspirin | Electrolyte imbalance, dehydration, fever, respiratory depression |
Reye Syndrome tx | stop aspirin, monitor carefully, manage swelling & edema |
s/sx of reyes syndrome | encepholopathy (brain-dysfunction), liver damage, neurochanges, decreased LOC, seizures, inflammation, swelling edema |
s/sx of encephalopathy | quiet, sleepy, vomiting... stupor, seizures decorticate response, coma; decerabrate response, no pupillary |
NSAID's AE | GI effects, increased risk for bleeding, fluid volume retention |
indications of NSAIDs | decreased inflammation-fever-px-platelet aggregation |